Max Weber und der Erste Weltkrieg

[Max Weber and the First World War.]

On the basis of Weber's war journalism, pre- and post-war speeches, private correspondence and academic output following 1914, Hinnerk Bruhns throws light on Weber's vision of German history and his attitude to the war.

The nation as an ultimate value to Max Weber? But is this explanation enough to solve the seeming paradox that the sharpest witted German sociologist of the time shared the war-enthusiasm of numerous other academics and intellectuals way beyond the year 1914 and that after the end of the war was prepared to enter a pact with the devil to resurrect Germany, as Hannah Arendt quotes in a letter to Karl Jaspers? On the basis of Weber's war journalism, pre- and post-war speeches, private correspondence and academic output following 1914, Hinnerk Bruhns throws light on Weber's vision of German history and his attitude to the war.

The nation as an ultimate value to Max Weber? But is this explanation enough to solve the seeming paradox that the sharpest witted German sociologist of the time shared the war-enthusiasm of numerous other academics and intellectuals way beyond the year 1914 and that after the end of the war was prepared to enter a pact with the devil to resurrect Germany, as Hannah Arendt quotes in a letter to Karl Jaspers? On the basis of Weber's war journalism, pre- and post-war speeches, private correspondence and academic output following 1914, Hinnerk Bruhns throws light on Weber's vision of German history and his attitude to the war.